Posted in Spiritual Applications

How often do the enemies of God know more of God's Word

than His own children do?

There are false religions that have more knowledge of the Holy Bible

than many born-again believers do.

This is true today and this was true in Bible times as well.

For example, the Pharisees knew the Scriptures and Christ's teachings...

"Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation,

the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate,
Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive,

After three days I will rise again." ~ Matthew 27:62-63

The Pharisses believed Jesus to be a deciever,

yet they listened and remembered what He had taught. 

In contrast, Jesus' own disciples,

when they went to His tomb, did not remember...

"For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead."

   ~ John 20:9

The enemies of Christ knew more of the scriptures than His disciples seemingly did.

I was challenged with this question Sunday morning

and it's not so far-fetched as to be impossible to happen...

If our Bibles were taken away from us,

how much of God's Word

would we be able to put back together through memorization?

As individuals, as families, and as a body of believers...

would we know enough of God's Word

if, for some reason, it were taken?

Just because the confinscation and disposal of Bibles happened in the past

does not mean we are promised it could never happen again.

Where would we be, as believers, if it did happen?

Where would our children be?

We, as parents, as children of God and as lights in the world,

cannot afford to not know His Word.

Whether our Bibles are taken or not, it is crucial for our survival.

May we be challenged and convicted in memorizing God's Word.

May we get to know our Savior by knowing His Holy Word.

"My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart." ~ Proverbs 7:1-3